PORTUGAL / VIANA DO CASTELO / CAMINHA

Moledo

The river “Minho” forms a sandbank which can produce quality waves. A clean, calm beach, with a pleasant landscape. Occasional rips near the mouth of the river.

AREA: CAMINHA

The setting is fabulous it sits at the mouth of the Minho river, Portugal’s natural border with Spain. Caminha is beautiful for both its scenery and long stretch of sand. The Spanish mountain “Santa Tecla” creates a stunning backdrop, and a shady pocket of pine forest provides shelter from an offshore breeze.

PORTUGAL / VIANA DO CASTELO / CAMINHA

VILA PRAIA DE ÂNCORA

Área: Caminha

Waves: Rights and lefts

Break: Beach Break

Ideal swell size: 0,5-2,5m

Optimum tide: Low tide

Opt. wind direction: E-NE

Opt. Swell: N-NW

Level: Beginner, intermediate and advanced

This beach usually works with a right wave that forms a point, it is usually easy and great for learning. Along the beach there are several beach breaks good for more advanced surfers.

AREA: CAMINHA

The setting is fabulous it sits at the mouth of the Minho river, Portugal’s natural border with Spain. Caminha is beautiful for both its scenery and long stretch of sand. The Spanish mountain “Santa Tecla” creates a stunning backdrop, and a shady pocket of pine forest provides shelter from an offshore breeze.

PORTUGAL / VIANA DO CASTELO / VIANA DO CASTELO

AFIFE

Área: Viana do Castelo

Waves: Rights

Break: Beach break

Ideal swell size: 0,5-2,5m

Optimum tide: All tides

Opt. wind direction: E-NE

Opt. Swell: NW-W

Level: Beginner, intermediate and advanced

Consistent, classy beachbreak with sandbars sculpted by “Cabanas” river. Right into the rivermouth and a peak on the main beach.

AREA: Viana do Castelo

The presence of “Lima” river, mountain “Santa Luzia” and the ocean, rendered the city landscaped skills of excellence that delight the senses, provide a psychological climate of decompression and are conducive to a healthy and pleasant leisure time. Overall the modern cultural spaces (theatres, cinemas, libraries, museums) provides conditions for cultural enrichment to residents and visitors, while the presence of the estuary and the sea offer special conditions to welcome sailing boats and for the practice of all kind of watersports, including surfing. Surfing started in Viana since 1987 at the Cabedelo, Rodanho, Afife, Âncora and Moledo beaches.

PORTUGAL / VIANA DO CASTELO / VIANA DO CASTELO

Arda (aka Mariana)

Área: Viana do Castelo

Waves: Lefts and rights

Break: Beach break

Ideal swell size: 0,5m-3m

Optimum tide: All tides

Opt. wind direction: S-SE

Opt. Swell: NW-W

Level: Beginner, Intermediate and advanced

One of the most popular spots in northern Portugal, a surfing destination since the late 80s. Possibility of strong winds and rips. This spot has a great reputation among the surfing community for the wave variety.

PORTUGAL / VIANA DO CASTELO / VIANA DO CASTELO

Cabedelo

Área: Viana do Castelo

Waves: Rights and lefts

Break: Beach break

Ideal swell size: 0,5-2m

Optimum tide: Better at low

Opt. wind direction: N-NE

Opt. Swell: W

Level: Beginner and Intermediate

Classic beachbreak that occasionally gets epic at the pontoon. Mainly rights that get hollow at lower tides.

PORTUGAL / VIANA DO CASTELO / ESPOSENDE

Suave mar

Área: Esposende

Waves: Lefts and Rights

Break: Beach break

Ideal swell size: 0,5-2m

Optimum tide: All tides

Opt. wind direction: E-SE

Opt. Swell: NW-W

Level: Beginner, Intermediate and advanced

Beach break with a hollow and fast wave, consistent during most of the year.

PORTUGAL / VIANA DO CASTELO / ESPOSENDE

Ofir

Área: --

Waves: Lefts and Rights

Break: Beach break

Ideal swell size: 0,5m-2m

Optimum tide: All tides

Opt. wind direction: East

Opt. Swell: NW-W

Level: Beginner and Intermediate

Has several peaks spread out along the beach and waves breaking often throughout the year. Good beginners spot.

AREA: Esposende

The marsh and estuary of “Cávado” river that go with, it is presented as a strategic place for the migratory birds that look for a refuge from the cold of the harshest winters in the North and Central Europe. Neiva river and its clear waters, green pine forest of fir? and the stunning views that offer different viewpoints about Esposende, are just some of the interesting features of the county in which the richness of the natural landscape and heritage built by human hand as is the case of windmills, fields in the trough, the forts and mills, are combined in a unique harmony, forming landscapes of high scenic and environmental value and confirms Esposende as one of the most beautiful counties in the North region.

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